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2018 LEGISLATIVE AGENDA

The Minnesota Association of Child Care Professionals has
identified the following goals for the 2018 legislative session.
Additional issues will be added as they arise.

1. Repeal the
requirement for our minor children age 13 – 17 to undergo
fingerprint background checks as a condition of living in a
family child care home. MACCP has worked with bill
authors Senator Kiffmeyer and Representative Scott on bill
language that would prevent the DHS from requiring fingerprint
background studies on 13-17 year old children without a
significant justification (criminal history, multi-state
offender, etc.). Senator Kiffmeyer has been working tirelessly
on the language of this bill since last September.

2. Expand access to
homeowners insurance coverage for family child care providers.
MACCP continues to work with the insurance industry and
lawmakers to prohibit denial of coverage for child care
providers who carry liability insurance and operate within their
licensing capacity.

3. Eliminate the
requirement for family child care providers to give
parents/guardians annual notice of liability insurance.
Our bill would require initial notification at the time of
enrollment and subsequent notification would be limited to a
change in insurance status.

4. MACCP will continue
to support and advocate for exemption for family child care
providers from the Positive Supports Rule.

5. MACCP is working
with lawmakers to require the DHS to give full disclosure
regarding the use, retention and scope of biometric data such as
fingerprints. Child care providers have the right to
know who will receive our personal data, how long they will keep
it and how it will be used.

6. MACCP will
introduce language to require DHS and/or the MN BCA to ensure
our fingerprints are removed from the FBI database once we are
no longer subject to background studies. Only the
agency that requested the background study can request the
fingerprints be removed. Without this, the FBI will keep our
fingerprints until we are 110 years old or have been dead for 7
years.

7. MACCP will continue
to advocate and fight for a fair and transparent oversight
process that affords child care providers the due process we
currently lack. This includes fact-based and detailed
correction orders and negative actions that are free from
embellishment and include a provider’s response to the
allegation. Fair posting requirements on the DHS website that
removes overturned negative actions and correction orders. Last,
we need an outside entity for appeals that includes both
corrective and negative actions. The Department of Human
Services currently has the power to police their own actions.
Naturally this means they often uphold their own orders. Child
care providers deserve the right to appeal to an Administrative
Law Judge who hears evidence from both DHS and the provider and
makes a ruling based on evidence and law/rule. This ruling needs
to be final.